The Edge: We know how you feel, Nebraska

For 10 days, the Nebraska state flag flew upside down over the state Capitol, the Omaha World-Herald reported earlier this week.

“Nobody noticed it,” State Sen. Burke Harr told members of the Legislature’s Executive Board, according to the paper. “It took someone drawing it to my attention before it was changed.”

The Omaha World-Herald said the senator used the story to help make his pitch for why lawmakers should consider creating a task force to decide whether the Nebraska flag needs a new design.

Don’t feel bad, Nebraska. We can totally relate.

In fact, in 2015, Montana’s flag ranked 49th out of 50 in an online poll sponsored by Ted Kaye, compiler of “Good Flag, Bad Flag,” and the North American Vexillological Association, a group dedicated to the study of flags.

The only flag ranked worst than the Treasure State’s? Nebraska.

Both flags have the state seal as the main design focus, but Montana’s is in color and Nebraska is only gold on a blue background, apparently enough to push it to last place.

Not everyone agrees with Montana’s poor showing though.

In 2015, Kaye described Montana’s allegiance to its flag akin to wearing rose-colored glasses or pure, blind love.

“It’s sort of like the mother of an ugly baby,” he said. “She loves the baby because it’s her own, and she is used to it.”

Do as I say, not as I do

What a difference a couple of months make.

We have been noticing how people who were fine with President Barack Obama signing executive orders suddenly have a change of heart when it’s done by President Donald Trump.

On the other hand, we also notice that people who are complaining about the time it takes for Trump’s cabinet picks to be approved had no problem when Congress delayed President Obama’s Supreme Court pick into oblivion.

Bumper snicker

“If at first you don’t succeed,

ask your Extension agent.”

–spotted on a white Chevrolet Equinox with Montana wheat plates at Choteau’s cemetery.

Quote of the Week

“Sometimes judges don’t know the laws very well.”

– Republican Sen. Jennifer Fielder of Thompson Falls on why a bill to prevent state judges from applying foreign laws in their courtrooms is important. The Montana Senate passed the measure Thursday.